On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 18:28 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hey! > > > On 19.12.19 17:03, Michał Górny wrote: > > > B) Introduce USE flag "system-expat" to CMake similar to existing > > > flag "system-jsoncpp", have it off by default, keep reminding > > > CMake upstream to update their bundle > > > > > > [..] > > > > It violates the policy on bundled libraries. > > Same for the dev-util/cmake-bootstrap approach, right? > > > > What's worse, the awful > > USE flags solution means that most of the Gentoo devs end up using > > bundled libraries just because people are manually required to figure > > out what to do in order to disable them. > > I didn't say that it's perfect :) It's the same approach that we have > have with the system-jsoncpp USE flag already so that was considered > good enough at some point in the past. I guess we want the same for > Expat and jsoncpp? Which alternative do you see as better than a new > flag system-expat? >
Just because someone did something crappy, it doesn't mean it was considered 'good enough'. It was just a cheap hack that someone once did just to get it over with and stop caring. Not a good solution we should keep copying. We have a better alternative that lets us limit the impact on the users. Why not use it? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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